Want to succeed managing your diabetes? Now you can. Diabetes Do's & How-To's is the quintessential "owner's manual" for those with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Here are the small, yet powerful steps to live healthfully with diabetes -- and guidance how to take them. This book isn't about diabetes, it's an instruction manual for, simply and quickly, creating your best health. Riva Greenberg, a diabetes educator and patient who's had diabetes for forty years, clears up the confusion, stops the overwhelm, and with a team of top diabetes experts, guides you through 65 steps to improve how you deal with food and eat healthy, bring your weight within a normal range if necessary, begin or accelerate your fitness and enjoy it, manage your medicines, lab tests and doctor visits, progress while staying positive, and so much more. Worksheets help you start new goals, fellow patients share personal "How-To's," and Haidee S. Merritt's cartoons put a smile on your face. A section is also dedicated to health care professionals to help you further help your patients succeed. "Riva Gre Kaiser Permanente "...Brimming with practical and useful advice." Sheri Colberg, PhD, CDE, Author of The 7-Step Diabetes Fitness Plan This book is your guide to sanity, salvation and health. Francine R. Kaufman, M.D., The Center for Diabetes, Childrens Hospital, LA "A road map for persons and families living with diabetes." Barbara J. Anderson, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine "With so much conflicting information about how to manage diabetes, this book brings everything into laser-sharp focus." Brandy Barnes, Founder & CEO of DiabetesSisters.com "A delightful spin on diabetes self-care focusing on what you can do." Claire Blum, RN, CDE "...it's the formula that gets you on top of your diabetes, rather than have diabetes on top of you." Margaret Moore, CEO, Wellcoaches Corporation "...a key resource for anyone who has, or wishes to prevent, diabetes..." Terry Stein, MD, Kaiser Permanente - Authors to Watch by Celebrity Chef Charles Mattocks Riva Greenberg, recognized diabetes patient-expert, author, speaker and health coach, has lived successfully with type 1 diabetes for more than forty years.This book came from her talks with patients seeing how confused and bereft they are of the actions to take - and how to take them - to live a full, rich, healthy and happy life with diabetes.Riva's work and passion is an inspiration in my life and my diabetes goals. She is an excellent example of living one's best life with diabetes, and inspiring others to live their best life. - An expert whose writing is authoritative and compassionate - Ginger Vieira Looking for a straight-forward book filled with easy-to-digest tips on living well with diabetes? I highly recommend putting this on your bedside table. Each section reads quickly and clarifies confusion on so many areas of what we should be doing in diabetes management.Each “do” and “how to" are very easy to grasp quickly, the title chapters are a breaht of fresh air compared to the stiff and overly lecturing tone of most diabetes books, and there are hilariously poignant cartoons. Finally, Riva's knowledge and expertise is soundly evident. Your history doesn't have to be your future. What counts is what you do next. What one small step can you take today to live with diabetes a little better? Take it. I frequently travel across the US, and to other countries, speaking to people with diabetes, and hear: "Can I eat fried chicken?" "What's the best thing to have for breakfast?" "My blood sugar's fine in the morning, why is my doctor telling me to take another pill?"  I hear confusion, which is understandable because diabetes is a complex, chronic condition that we patients, not our doctors, have to manage. I also see that the vast majority of people who have trouble managing their diabetes aren't lazy or unmotivated; rather they don't know what to do--and how to do it.  I wrote this book to answer the urgent need all of us have for simple, clear information about what to do to take care of our diabetes and how to do it. While you may spend up to a dozen hours with your health care providers each year, you spend more than 8,700 hours on your own, making daily decisions that affect your diabetes. Now, with this book, you have the ability to make those decisions smart and healthful. This is the diabetes book every patient and health care provider needs! "Riva's work and passion has been an inspiration in my life and my diabetes goals. She is an excellent example of living one's best life with diabetes, and inspiring others to live their best life." -- Charles Mattocks, Celebrity Chef, Filmmaker, Author "Anyone who can make diabetes seem like an asset is the person I want to take advice from. Riva Greenberg uses diabetes to set goals and overcome obstacles the way a runner trains for the marathon--and her positive attitude is infecti